Building "Clearwater Industries"

[clearwater]

Let there be light!

I bought a strip of LEDs, bright white. Three plus resistor are one segment which runs with 12V DC.
I took the LEDs from the strip and built my lanterns for the footbridge.
The lamp post is made of 2mm brass tube, the cable inside is from a small transformer,
the plug is a 2.54mm electronics plug - a little soldering and brushing the tube brown - finished!











Regards Thomas[/quote]

[Tyson Rayles]

Great night shots!

[BR60103]

Thomas:
I went looking for my German-Englisch dictionary tonight but can't find it.
Floating is what a ship does on the water. Flooding is what the Rhein does when it gets too much water and comes over the banks (see end of Goetterdaemmerung :mrgreen: )
Our local hobby shop is building a layout and recessing the knobs on switch machines by drilling holes in the side boards. There is another board tacked on behind that holds the rod. I haven't checked just how thick the board is.

[Rscott417]

Let there be light!

I bought a strip of LEDs, bright white. Three plus resistor are one segment which runs with 12V DC.
I took the LEDs from the strip and built my lanterns for the footbridge.
The lamp post is made of 2mm brass tube, the cable inside is from a small transformer,
the plug is a 2.54mm electronics plug - a little soldering and brushing the tube brown - finished!





Regards Thomas

[/quote]

What type of led light or color led did you use for this building and the good year sign. i want my street lights to have that older incandescent look, not the bright white.

[ward kesic]

GREAT PROCESS......design........mockup..........build.......and photograph

[Herc Driver]

That is amazingly cool. Really nicely done.

[clearwater]

@David: thank you for the explanation of the words - so it should be flooding.
By the way when you are talking about knobs: Do you think about something
like this: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.outbus.de/product.html">http://www.outbus.de/product.html</a><!-- m --> ?

@Rscott417: I took diffent types of light.
Lights at the footbridge, lights at Sentry Industries, lights at the outside of Lindworm Tyres
are all made from the led-strips and bright white. (Chineses sell them on ebay)
Lights at the doors from Trujillo are the smallest I used. They are bright white G0603 LEDs
(size = 1.60mm * 0.80mm) - a little tricky to solder - no guts, no glory!
You get them for example here:
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specification at the link:
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The warm white lights inside the loading bay of Trujollo and inside Lindworm Tyres
as well as the Good Year sign are made of ordinary light bulbs 14V driven by 12V so
that they don´t shine so bright. But I think "warm white" LEDs will look the same.

All white LEDs from the strip are additionally driven by DC and a 7805 which
I connected that way that I can use it as a dimmer switch to reduce brightness.

@all: thank you for plaudit !

[Harry]

Thomas, hast fein gemacht. Hut ab ......

[sailormatlac]

I like when different light colors are used to represent different lighting devices. Very interesting results so far.

Matt

[clearwater]

thank you Harry and Matt!

What does a guy need who has got almost everything to run his layout?

Freights!

Maybe I could buy it - but I prefer producing it on my own:











The last one - tanks made for Sentry Industries - is made from "Überraschungseier"
You would translate it as "supprise eggs" from a big chocolate producer:

[Ralph]

The photo that shows the relative size of the carton on your finger tip amazes me! Nicely done!

I'm also a big fan of using common inexpensive objects as models such as your tanks from "surprise eggs" Very convincing loads!
Ralph

[modelsof1900]

Ckearwater,

Excellent ideas with good emboyment the reality! And very fine hand working! I think it's N-scale?

[secondhandmodeler]

Thomas, I am new to the forum and just finished reading your thread. Very nice work! I'm amazed at the detailed craftsmanship that has gone into your layout. It makes me feel like maybe I could have built something from scratch on my layout instead of relying on kits for everything. I look forward to checking in on this thread in the future.

[Yngve]

That is some impressive work! I love what you did with the Kinder eggs, I have never ever thought about using that to make tanks. Might have to buy some the next time I go to the store. Chocolate, a toy and model railroad material!

[BR60103]

Clearwater:
I didn't understand the link. It's been 48 years that I haven't German studied and I can't my Worterbuch find.
Is it something like a doughnut fastened around the knob?